So here is my arm. As soon as it happened I popped 800mg of ibuprophin and started icing it. the bruising is starting now so I assume it will turn pretty colors in the next couple of days. It could have been so much worse! They were debating whether to stitch up the one puncture, but I asked them not to. I think it's better to leave it open and let it drain. Hurts like the dickens.

~Jeanine

You never know when it will strike, but there comes a moment at work when you know that you just aren't going to do anything productive for the rest of the day.

YOUCH!!!!! Wow you're being far more of a trooper than I am. I was a whiny baby when the Collie nailed me in the gut the other week and it was absolutely NOTHING like that. You keep popping that valium, honey!

"All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another." -Anatole France

Very impressive. The one wound that is open a bit I would leave alone. When I had a bite last year I had about 4 wounds of that size and they stitched up all 4. Within 2 days I spent the night in the ER on an IV because a nasty infection set in.

I assume you are on antibiotics and they gave you a tetanus if you hadn't had one in a few years? If you haven't seen a dr. I would. They can also scrub the wounds to help prevent any infection

The first day of the bite it hurt a LOT. I didn't really find anything to help the pain but it did go away after about a day

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maberi wrote:Very impressive. The one wound that is open a bit I would leave alone. When I had a bite last year I had about 4 wounds of that size and they stitched up all 4. Within 2 days I spent the night in the ER on an IV because a nasty infection set in.

I assume you are an antibiotics and they gave you a tetanus if you hadn't had one in a few years? If you haven't seen a dr. I would. They can also scrub the wounds to help prevent any infection

The first day of the bite it hurt a LOT. I didn't really find anything to help the pain but it did go away after about a day

Yeah, I asked them to leave it open and I'm on Amoxi for 10 days. And yes, I'm sporting a brand new tetanus shot. My lucky day!

~Jeanine

You never know when it will strike, but there comes a moment at work when you know that you just aren't going to do anything productive for the rest of the day.

The large one.... by the wrist... i'd be very careful of.... if that starts to swell etc... and if they start to swell, turn red, start a fever etc.... you need to respond rather quickly and get antibiotics for them, before you end up with a septic joint in the wrist....

I also agree.... not to close puncture wounds or bites.

Heather

A dog teaches a (kid) boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.- Robert Benchley

gayrghts wrote:The large one.... by the wrist... i'd be very careful of.... if that starts to swell etc... and if they start to swell, turn red, start a fever etc.... you need to respond rather quickly and get antibiotics for them, before you end up with a septic joint in the wrist....

I also agree.... not to close puncture wounds or bites.

I've got ab's (Amoxi) and started them today.

~Jeanine

You never know when it will strike, but there comes a moment at work when you know that you just aren't going to do anything productive for the rest of the day.

gayrghts wrote:The large one.... by the wrist... i'd be very careful of.... if that starts to swell etc... and if they start to swell, turn red, start a fever etc.... you need to respond rather quickly and get antibiotics for them, before you end up with a septic joint in the wrist....

I also agree.... not to close puncture wounds or bites.

I've got ab's (Amoxi) and started them today.

Good, but even with ab's.... infection can occur, if they are not the right ab for the right germs....

so please keep an eye on it....

Heather

A dog teaches a (kid) boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.- Robert Benchley

pitbullmamaliz wrote:Ouch! I hope you don't have any shows coming up too soon...

I was supposed to pick up at the Pink Door tomorrow, but I'll just go in and do the music and Polly is going to pick up. There's a creepy circus show in town (no animals) and I'd love to show my dog bite off at. They'd think I was pretty cool. Weirdos.

~Jeanine

You never know when it will strike, but there comes a moment at work when you know that you just aren't going to do anything productive for the rest of the day.

OUCH!!! Never EVER close a dog bite. My friend Jamie had to have surgery to clean out his wound because the idiot in the ER stitched it, it got infected that same night & his face swelled up like a balloon!

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